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i . I u- Check out the styles that will get you checked out if'; J SB M !M Tuesday, July 27, 1999 www.weber.edusignpost Volume 62 Number 7 see features page 5 Possible fee could increase web class cost By Deanne V. Chastun asst. news editor-The Signpost The suite Board of Regents is discussing a proposed flat $90 fee for tuition and fees for each Internet-based credit hour at Weber State University.Internet classes will cost exactly the same as regular campus classes until this fee has been decided on. The proposed change follows the example set by the Utah Electronic Community College, where the Board of Regents has already approved a flat tuition fee for a recently approved online associate's degree in criminal justice. "WSU Online is arevenue-neutral program that has been incredibly successful," said Provost David Eisler. "WSU is further along online than many other universities." Although WSU provides over 80 Internet-based courses, it has met problems with "exploding demand" for these courses, according to a letter to the Board of Regents. "Students seem to want these classes and they fill up first," Eisler said. "There is more demand than we can satisfy." Despite the booming demand, Eisler encourages students to think carefully before adding online courses to an already full load. "We do not encourage those students taking a full load to take online classes as well," Eisler said. Discouraging full-time students from taking online classes is what many claim the $90 flat fee was meant to do. From fall 1998 to spring 1999, online enrollment grew from 75 1 students to 1 ,300. And the funds to support such growing enrollment have not kept up. But the proposed flat fee for online classes is just another reason not to enroll for online classes, said Noreen Price, a 33-year-old criminal justice and sociology major who took 18 credit hours online during spring semester."I will not take another online class," Price said, "because the network goes down' so much. It drove me insane." Price also disliked taking classes over the Internet because only two of her six professors responded promptly to her emails asking for help on assignments and requesting infor mation on her grades. "I was never told my standing in the classes," she said. Price, who took the online classes because she wanted more time to be home with her baby who was in intensive care, agreed with Eisler about thinking twice before taking an online class. "I had heard online classes were easy to do. I was expecting the same amount of work as regular campus classes, but online classes ended up being more," Price said. "They take See Fee page 3 Shields up, prepare to fight IT. X.- - 1.' i VT& 4 . 5. ''-4.. " . f E V im.- A if! Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism show off their jousting skills Wednesdasy at the Social Science Building as part of the Upward Bound summer program. Poets climbing peaks for college credit By Melissa Morgan news writer-The Signpost While climbing the highest peaks in England, 25 students, alumni and friends from Weber State University travel to a land of history, poems, stories, and ghosts during the Dead Poets Tour July 1 4 through Aug. 8. After passing the physical tests in Utah, to experience the rough terrain that could be ahead of them, the Dead Poets Tour taped up their ankles and prepared for the hikes and climbs. "We will be traveling approximately 300 miles on foot," said Dr. Mikel Vause, director of WSU's honors program and organizer of the tour. "We will be climbing a different mountain about every other day the first half of our trip." The hikes that they have scheduled are taking them on a physically demanding, but educationally rewarding journey. They will see Scottish, Welsh and English countryside, where some of Britain's greatest poets once were inspired. While there, they will study Burns, Coleridge, Dalton, Potter, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and other British writers. "The students will be asked to keep a daily journal of the experiences that they have. Along with the journal they must include drawings, photos, articles found on the way, or souvenirs," said Vause. "It is just a way to make them remember the trip even more." While they are studying the literature and climbing as they go, students will also stop off at famous landmarks including Loch Lomond (Rob Roy country), the Scottish highlands, Sterling Castle (near the home of William Wallace), Edinburgh Castle (the Queen of England's summer home), Nottingham (home of Robin Hood), London's Piccadilly Circus district, Wesminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. "My wife and I started all of this in 1989 when we went on the trip and filmed it. A colleague of mine saw it and convinced me that students need to experience it," Vause said. "Now we are going on our fifth or sixth trip and looking forward to it." Anyone interested in touring England with the Dead Poets Tour, should contact Vause at 626-6659. Medical donation benefits health program By Melinda Webber news writer-The Signpost Weber State University's clinical laboratory science program will begin using a more updated Abbott Diagnostics Spectrum, ablood-chemistry anaiyzer, to teach and train students fall semester. Gary Nielsen, a WSU medical technology professor said, "Some 1 5 years ago, Abbott Diagnostics donated an analyzer, an older one." Nielsen has been working through Abbott to get a new, updated analyzer. Abbott encouraged the Uintah Basin Medical Center, in Roosevelt, Utah to donate their analyzer to WSU, since they had just purchased a new one. Nielsen explained that the analyzer they've been using still does a good job, but when it breaks down it won't be possible to replace the parts. "The gift is very important to us because the analyzers we were using before were state of the art in 1973," Nielson said. The donated analyzer, which tests properties in the blood, is more automated and updated. Having updated equipment is important to WSU because its clinical laboratory sciences program is currently the largest in the state. They are the main supplier for medical laboratory technicians and medical technologists. Nielsen explained that they can ad mit 30 medical laboratory technicians per year into the two-year program along with 15 medical technologists per year into the four year program. "We're the biggest program in the state and we like to think we're the best as well," Nielsen said. WSU is one of two programs in the entire nation that's accredited to leach all of the clinical work here on campus, rather than in hospitals. "Our students do go out for a short period of time, in hospitals, but it's not their primary education," Nielsen said. He explained that the program simulates the work flow of a hospital, and that the updated analyzer will help in doing that. "We're the biggest program in the state, and we like to think we 're the best as well. " -Gory Nielsen, WSU medical technology professor "We try to throw in all of the common problems that you run into in a common hospital," Nielsen said. Nielsen explained that the analyzer will teach students how to run analyzers similar to the ones they wll use in the work field. "It's kind of like teaching you to drive a Toyota. The Oldsmobile will be a little bit different, but the basic skills are there," Nielsen said. Students must know how to run the instrument, take the test and then evaluate the results. inside post neWS seepage 2 editorial seepage4 a&e seepage6 SpOftS seepage7 classifieds seepage8

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i . I u- Check out the styles that will get you checked out if'; J SB M !M Tuesday, July 27, 1999 www.weber.edusignpost Volume 62 Number 7 see features page 5 Possible fee could increase web class cost By Deanne V. Chastun asst. news editor-The Signpost The suite Board of Regents is discussing a proposed flat $90 fee for tuition and fees for each Internet-based credit hour at Weber State University.Internet classes will cost exactly the same as regular campus classes until this fee has been decided on. The proposed change follows the example set by the Utah Electronic Community College, where the Board of Regents has already approved a flat tuition fee for a recently approved online associate's degree in criminal justice. "WSU Online is arevenue-neutral program that has been incredibly successful," said Provost David Eisler. "WSU is further along online than many other universities." Although WSU provides over 80 Internet-based courses, it has met problems with "exploding demand" for these courses, according to a letter to the Board of Regents. "Students seem to want these classes and they fill up first," Eisler said. "There is more demand than we can satisfy." Despite the booming demand, Eisler encourages students to think carefully before adding online courses to an already full load. "We do not encourage those students taking a full load to take online classes as well," Eisler said. Discouraging full-time students from taking online classes is what many claim the $90 flat fee was meant to do. From fall 1998 to spring 1999, online enrollment grew from 75 1 students to 1 ,300. And the funds to support such growing enrollment have not kept up. But the proposed flat fee for online classes is just another reason not to enroll for online classes, said Noreen Price, a 33-year-old criminal justice and sociology major who took 18 credit hours online during spring semester."I will not take another online class," Price said, "because the network goes down' so much. It drove me insane." Price also disliked taking classes over the Internet because only two of her six professors responded promptly to her emails asking for help on assignments and requesting infor mation on her grades. "I was never told my standing in the classes," she said. Price, who took the online classes because she wanted more time to be home with her baby who was in intensive care, agreed with Eisler about thinking twice before taking an online class. "I had heard online classes were easy to do. I was expecting the same amount of work as regular campus classes, but online classes ended up being more," Price said. "They take See Fee page 3 Shields up, prepare to fight IT. X.- - 1.' i VT& 4 . 5. ''-4.. " . f E V im.- A if! Members of the Society for Creative Anachronism show off their jousting skills Wednesdasy at the Social Science Building as part of the Upward Bound summer program. Poets climbing peaks for college credit By Melissa Morgan news writer-The Signpost While climbing the highest peaks in England, 25 students, alumni and friends from Weber State University travel to a land of history, poems, stories, and ghosts during the Dead Poets Tour July 1 4 through Aug. 8. After passing the physical tests in Utah, to experience the rough terrain that could be ahead of them, the Dead Poets Tour taped up their ankles and prepared for the hikes and climbs. "We will be traveling approximately 300 miles on foot," said Dr. Mikel Vause, director of WSU's honors program and organizer of the tour. "We will be climbing a different mountain about every other day the first half of our trip." The hikes that they have scheduled are taking them on a physically demanding, but educationally rewarding journey. They will see Scottish, Welsh and English countryside, where some of Britain's greatest poets once were inspired. While there, they will study Burns, Coleridge, Dalton, Potter, Scott, Southey, Wordsworth and other British writers. "The students will be asked to keep a daily journal of the experiences that they have. Along with the journal they must include drawings, photos, articles found on the way, or souvenirs," said Vause. "It is just a way to make them remember the trip even more." While they are studying the literature and climbing as they go, students will also stop off at famous landmarks including Loch Lomond (Rob Roy country), the Scottish highlands, Sterling Castle (near the home of William Wallace), Edinburgh Castle (the Queen of England's summer home), Nottingham (home of Robin Hood), London's Piccadilly Circus district, Wesminster Abbey and Buckingham Palace. "My wife and I started all of this in 1989 when we went on the trip and filmed it. A colleague of mine saw it and convinced me that students need to experience it," Vause said. "Now we are going on our fifth or sixth trip and looking forward to it." Anyone interested in touring England with the Dead Poets Tour, should contact Vause at 626-6659. Medical donation benefits health program By Melinda Webber news writer-The Signpost Weber State University's clinical laboratory science program will begin using a more updated Abbott Diagnostics Spectrum, ablood-chemistry anaiyzer, to teach and train students fall semester. Gary Nielsen, a WSU medical technology professor said, "Some 1 5 years ago, Abbott Diagnostics donated an analyzer, an older one." Nielsen has been working through Abbott to get a new, updated analyzer. Abbott encouraged the Uintah Basin Medical Center, in Roosevelt, Utah to donate their analyzer to WSU, since they had just purchased a new one. Nielsen explained that the analyzer they've been using still does a good job, but when it breaks down it won't be possible to replace the parts. "The gift is very important to us because the analyzers we were using before were state of the art in 1973," Nielson said. The donated analyzer, which tests properties in the blood, is more automated and updated. Having updated equipment is important to WSU because its clinical laboratory sciences program is currently the largest in the state. They are the main supplier for medical laboratory technicians and medical technologists. Nielsen explained that they can ad mit 30 medical laboratory technicians per year into the two-year program along with 15 medical technologists per year into the four year program. "We're the biggest program in the state and we like to think we're the best as well," Nielsen said. WSU is one of two programs in the entire nation that's accredited to leach all of the clinical work here on campus, rather than in hospitals. "Our students do go out for a short period of time, in hospitals, but it's not their primary education," Nielsen said. He explained that the program simulates the work flow of a hospital, and that the updated analyzer will help in doing that. "We're the biggest program in the state, and we like to think we 're the best as well. " -Gory Nielsen, WSU medical technology professor "We try to throw in all of the common problems that you run into in a common hospital," Nielsen said. Nielsen explained that the analyzer will teach students how to run analyzers similar to the ones they wll use in the work field. "It's kind of like teaching you to drive a Toyota. The Oldsmobile will be a little bit different, but the basic skills are there," Nielsen said. Students must know how to run the instrument, take the test and then evaluate the results. inside post neWS seepage 2 editorial seepage4 a&e seepage6 SpOftS seepage7 classifieds seepage8